allmplayerdownloads.com

I have this site (allmplayerdownloads.com xxxx) lodged somehow in my browser (explorer9). It pops up in a new window when I open a new site, not every time but every few times. I can't see how to get rid of it. Any help would be much appreciated.

I had run malicious ware checking, and have followed your suggestion and downloaded and run malwarebytes but that and the other checks do not give any negatives. The site does not seem to be malicious, but how can I keep it from opening in a new window? I have listed the site to never be opened using the option under Tools but that doesn't seem to work.

If the problem is only in IE9. Have you tried to reset the IE9 settings? There might be an open new window every link click. Techincally malwarebytes wouldn't think this is malicious until the IP the website in question enters their blacklist of incoming data.

Yes, I've checked the settings and add-ons. I'm wondering if this might be some sort of trojan which is not being picked up by the standard security stuff because it is not overtly malicious. Any suggestions for good Trojan security apps?

Trojans go stealth and deliver the payload when least expected. I don't think a Trojan wants to advertise its presence by opening in another window, resizing, etc. I'd download a portable version of another browser and see what happens. I use IE10, and keep the latest version of K-meleon portable just for the hell of it. If I had to diagnose the problem with as little as we have to go by, I'd blame javascript for causing an unwanted browser behavior. It's not as if it has never happened before either.

s@nDOk@n, thanks for the comment. Yes, on reflection it doesn't seem like a trojan. What it seems like now is that the originator of this stuff has my web address and is sending a script to it which opens a window and displays its advertising. Does that sound reasonable? If so, I need to find some way of getting it to stop.

Gisboth, what you say is very interesting. My recollection is a little hazy, but until its screens started popping up I had never heard of allmplayerdownload or mplayer. As I recall, the allmplayerdownload stuff started after I downloaded an ebook player, FBReader, which in turn involved a compressed file reader UniversalExtractor. I think there was another ebook player involved but I can't recall details. However, as I say, your comments are very interesting. I will pursue installQ etc and see what I can find. The whole process has also dragged in another adware site with gambling stuff bingocabin.com. Ring any bells?

You may or may not find that specific program. I'd imagine that entities getting money this way will use various vehicles.

I'd see what else was installed when that reader was. (Sort by date) Assuming everything you know was installed wrt the reader was installed the same day, I'd get rid of everything installed on that date and see what happens. (keeping a list of any programs that might want to be reinstalled)

My apologies, poor description. As suggested, I looked at the list of programs but there were none installed on the day concerned other than the ebook reader which didn't seem to be the source of the problem. So I went back to the content filter under Tools and changed some of the settings for the Approved/Unapproved sites list and this seems to have worked. No more intrusions inviting me into web-poker games, etc. Hopefully, end of story.

I had the same problem. I run Norton and Malwarebytes. Neither would find anything on their scans. I also ran CCleaner and disabled some options in my startup, both in Internet explorer and Chrome. After doing this I started getting a warning from Norton every time I went to a different web page stating that a malicious site (adware.singalng)was trying to get to my PC and gave me the option to stop it from installing. This happened every web page. I stopped getting Yieldmanager and the phony Flash player pages, but the Norton messages were just as annoying. I went to the Norton website and researched adware.singalng and found that I should try using NPE Norton Power Eraser. I downloaded and ran NPE and it came up with 2 nasty Browser Helper Objects (BHO). 51817db1dbad.dll and 51817dda7e9f3.dll. NPE stated these objects were directly related to yield manager and all myplayer. I had NPE get rid of these and my system is now trouble free. I do not recommend finding these dll's and just deleteting.In looking at the NPE logs, it seems that some reg items were removed as well. Since I am a Norton user, I don't know if a non Norton user can run NPE. It was free and worked for me. I hope this helped, Good Luck.